Ryan Snyder, the President of RSA, believes in the value of educating planners, engineers, architects and the community at large about transportation planning. He conducts workshops, presents to conferences and public events, and gives specialized training. Snyder teaches pedestrian safety design courses for the Federal Highway Administration to cities, counties and state agencies. He is a nationally certified Safe Routes to School instructor and delivers this workshop on the regional, city and school levels. Snyder is also one of a small number of walk audit facilitators certified by the California Department of Public Health as a California Walkability Expert. He developed and taught “The Basics of Bicycle Planning” and “The Basics of Pedestrian Planning.” Snyder is frequently invited to speak on walkable communities, planning livable communities, planning healthy communities and other similar topics. The following lists some Snyder’s recent presentations:

• “Pedestrian Planning for Livable Communities,”

presented to the southern California International

Transportation Engineers Annual meeting,

March 2009

• “Transportation Planning for Livable Communities,”

presented to the Hawthorne City Planning Commission,

February 2009

• “Reclaiming Streets,”

presented at the California American Planning Association Conference,

September 2008

• “Planning Healthy Communities and Tools for Public Health Professionals,”

presented to Obesity Prevention in Public Health Conference

by Center for Disease Control and University of North Carolina, UNC,

August 2008

•“Transportation Planning for Livable Communities,”

UCLA Extension Planning Commissioners training,

June 2008

• Daylong training of Caltrans District Engineers and Safe Routes to School Coordinators

from all Caltrans districts on planning safe routes to school programs and infrastructure improvements,